John Gidding on decorating, Beijing and married life Special to the online edition of Windy City Times by Andrew Davis, Windy City Times2014-04-08 Turkish-born architect John Gidding has certainly led an intriguing life.
The 'Boxer' engine is so called because the movement of the engine's pistons resemble the movement of a boxer's fists in the horizontal plane. However, unlike the boxer's fists that both move in the same direction, half of the 'Boxer' engine's pistons move in the opposite direction.
From there America has fallen in love with the V type engine and the 50's and 60's produced some of the best Muscle cars. Boxer Engine. In 1896, Karl Benz invented the first internal combustion engine with it's horizontally opposed pistons.